Improvement in horse-rakes



duits/:I '5mm @sind @film J. E. VOILES, OF MADISON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO HMSELF AND JOHN W. HUTCHINGS, OF THE SAME PLACE..

13mm Patent No. 84,028 zaad Novanta 1o, 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN'v VHORSE-RAKES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the-name.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Object.

The object of this invention is to furnish an attachment to the revolving horse-rake in common use, whereby the rake can be made to revolve more readily and withless labor than with the devices now in use for that purpose. i

Figure l is an oblique projection of the front of the rake. A

Figure 2 is a cross-section through the line x x. Similar lettersof referenceindicate corresponding parts.

The operating-mechanism consists of the roller C, turning in journals in the handles F F of the rake. Around this roller is wound a coil-spring, A, one end of which is fastened to the roller, and the other end brought under the handles, and fastened with a nut and screw, or other device, to the vibrating cross-head D. This cross-head rests on the points of the two centre teeth of the rake, and is kept there by the force of the coil-spring A, thus preventing the rake from revolving. n

When the operator desires to discharge the acculmulated load, he turns the roller C in the direction indicated by the arrow, iig. 2. This motion causes .the spring A to be wound on the roller, thus drawing the cross-head D ii'om its position on the rake-teeth, as indicated in red lines,f1g. 2, and allows the rake to revolve. When the rake has made one revolution,

'the pawls E E fall of their own weight into the notches g g in the rake-head, thus preventing it from turning backward, while the cross-head D, having resumed its original position on the points of the rake-teeth by the reaction ci the spring A,-the rake is thus completely locked and ready to move forward. Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A releasing-device for the teethv of revolving horse rakes, composed of the coil-spring A, roller C, and

` vibrating cross-head D, when arranged and operated substantially as shown and described.

J. E. VOILES. Witnesses:

A. M. GONNETT, J. W. HU'rcHrNes. 

